Fiona Kells

📚 Attention word nerds! We asked @latrobe's @StuartKells, a historian and bibliophile, to review the new book 'The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes who Created the Oxford English Dictionary'. #Echobox=1694413365-1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">theconversation.com/philologists-p…

Local campaign launch for The Voice today! Campaigning, community and cupcakes!! @yes23au #VoiceToParliament

#SpecialCollections Image-A-Day📚🐉 “His Armes spred wider then a Dragons Wings” Henry VI, Part 1 (1632 #SecondFolio) paired with #dragon from 1589 Schlangenbuch by Conrad Gessner (#SpecColls @OU_Libraries) #ShakespeareSunday #page/458/mode/1up" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">repository.ou.edu/uuid/83a43918-…

First Folio of William Shakespeare, complete work digitized, more: bit.ly/2Vszx28

Philologists, Pedants And Obsessives: How Crowd-Sourcing Created The Oxford English Dictionary #MENAFN #Bitcoin #LatestNews #BreakingNews dlvr.it/Svw99D

@StuartKells @citybasement My freaky find today 😊

Worshipful Company of Shipwrights: charter dated 10 Sept. 1612. MORE: bit.ly/2FoXotK

Love this, more photos of bookshelves please - everyone not just @StuartKells #books #booklovers

❣️ The heart of the Dome! The ornate wooden dais in the La Trobe Reading Room was once an elevated seating area for @Library_Vic attendants. After more Library legends? Read today's blog: blogs.slv.vic.gov.au/such-was-life/… Wander: slv.vic.gov.au/whats-on/wander 📷 handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/136812

Philologists, pedants and obsessives: how crowd-sourcing created the Oxford English Dictionary ⁦@ConversationEDU⁩ ⁦@latrobe⁩ #LibraryPlanet #OED #booksaboutbooks theconversation.com/philologists-p…

Frontispiece to 'The English Hermite, or Wonder of this Age, Being a Relation of the Life of Roger Crab' (London, 1655) Crab went vegan aged 20 in 1641. He was also a celibate & known as a herb doctor. He advised patients to avoid alcohol & meat. He died Sept 11 1680 #otd (BM)

Nice find at City Basement Books today ⁦@citybasement⁩ #Melbourne #Bloomsbury

Since #medievaltwitter is trending... @britishlibrary

KODIAK!, Malachy McCoy, 1978. “…demented & insatiable hunger.” @MuchAdoAboutNil @StefanDz11 @joelansdale @atters1000 @Pulpcurry @memizon @lay_jim @Weird_Friction @Sulli864 @Charrlygirl @MightStephen @SSheil @GavinWoltjer @OzNoir @kresby2 @WilliamTchuggs @StuartKells @hitch_josh

A beautiful initial 'A'(rma) at the beginning of the Aeneid #Vergiliusbnfmslatin16236 BnF MS Latin 16236; Publius Vergilius Maro, Eglogae, Georgicae, Aeneis cum glossa; 11th century (first quarter); France; f.61r @GallicaBnF

A surprise guest today at Churchill College!

The library at night. #LibraryPlanet

A beautiful copy of Chaucer’s ‘Treatise on the Astrolabe’ alongside an example @ParkerLibCCCC Written in the 15th century, lovely script and paper, and largely based on the work of Ibn as-Saffar. #IslamicManuscripts #EnglishManuscripts #AnchorlessBodies #EmiiAlrai

Me trying to figure out what to post on which app when